pe·des·tri·an
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| 1. | a person who goes or travels on foot; walker. |
| 2. | going or performed on foot; walking. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to walking. |
| 4. | lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech. |
[Origin: 1710–20; < L pedestri- (s. of pedester on foot, deriv. of pés (s. ped-); see pedi-1) + -an
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pedestrian
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n. A person traveling on foot; a walker. adj.
[From Latin pedester, pedestr-, going on foot, from pedes, a pedestrian, from pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.] pe·des'tri·an·ism n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
pedestrian (adj.)
1716, "prosaic, dull" (of writing), from L. pedester (gen. pedestris) "plain, prosaic" (sense contrasted with equester "on horseback"), from pedes "one who goes on foot," from pes (gen. pedis) "foot" (see foot). Meaning "going on foot" is first attested 1791 in Eng. (it was also a sense of L. pedester). The noun meaning "walker" is 1793, from the adj.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| pedestrian | |
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| 1. | lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" |
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| 1. | a person who travels by foot |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
pedestrian [piˈdestriən] noun
a person who travels on foot
Example: Three pedestrians were hit by the car.
pedestrian [piˈdestriən] adjectiveExample: Three pedestrians were hit by the car.
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ordinary; rather boring or unexciting
Example: a pedestrian account
Example: a pedestrian account
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Pedestrian
Pe*des"tri*an\, a. Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Pedestrian
Pe*des"tri*an\, n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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